Live at the Sex Machine
Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, and reached No. 6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. Not only was it a Top 10 album, it stayed on the chart for 33 weeks; an impressive time span compared to most albums of the era. Although the band's huge success would not come until a few albums later, this release was popular with the R&B market. Like most of their early catalog, it was sampled by several artists during hip-hop's "Golden Era" of the 1980s and early 1990s. The track "Funky Man" was sampled in "Smack My Bitch Up" by the Prodigy.
Personnel
Kool and the Gang- Robert "Spike" Mickens – trumpet
- Claydes Smith – guitar
- Ricky Westfield – piano, organ
- Ronald Bell – tenor saxophone, music director
- George Brown – drums
- Dennis Thomas – alto saxophone
- Robert "Kool" Bell – bass guitar
- Gene Redd – producer, arranger
- Malcolm Addey – engineer
- Gene Redd Sr. – editing
- Douglas Flake – art direction, design
- Elliot Kaufman – photography
- Carl Hall – vocal background supervision